In the 1950s, 303 researchers travelled through Poland and gathered over 46,000 recordings of folk music. It was one of the largest campaigns of its kind in Poland. It’s 1934. Two young ...

Fans of Minnesota folk and blues music can get an early Christmas gift this week at the Hopkins Center for the Arts when Spider John Koerner and Charlie Parr take the stage for a concert. Koerner ...

Lead Belly is another important figure in the early stages of folk. You might recognize one of his trademark songs " Where Did You Sleep Last Night ." The song dates back to the 1800s, but was sung by ...

He defied Congress during the Red Scare of the 1950s, refusing to name names and ... In it, Seeger comes off as a dust-covered relic of folk music history, an obstacle to Dylan’s fame, even ...

Italian folk music is humble, warm and full of life, but its popularity has sharply faded over the past century. Fortunately, ...

In 1950, he was named in the infamous Red Channels ... Pete Seeger was a tireless and passionate advocate for the preservation of American folk music. His renditions of classics like “Goodnight ...

I was 21, so you can imagine what that meant to me.” Born in 1935, Seeger grew up in New York, part of American folk music royalty. Her father was a pioneering musicologist. Seeger’s half ...